With it being close to Halloween and all, I thought it might be neat to find out everyone's favorite Horror Movie.... and why? Do you like the Slash Em' Up Kind, the Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat Ones or the Ones That Will Spook You for the Rest Of Your Life???
Myself.... I am a HUGE Michael Myers Fan!!!! So I would definately have to go with the Halloween Movies - the 1st two being my Favorite Ones!!!! I have a Death Grip on the pillow and every light on in the house everytime I watch them.... don't know why? Michael just scares the shit out of me, although it might be the music too - hmmm.....
But anyways.... lets here it - whats your FAV HORROR FLICK & WHY???
My favorite horror movie franchise is the one with all of the cool quotes:
"Groovy"
"Come get some"
"This is my boom-stick!!!"
"Shop smart; shop S-mart"
"As I see it, you have two people running this town: Jack and Shit. And Jack's left town."
Why the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies? Because they are everything a horror movie should be: scary while not taking themselves too seriously, cheesy one-liners, and chainsaws attached to amputated apendages. What more could you want?
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
I think my favorite is "April Fool's Day" not because it was great or anything, but I just really enjoyed it the first time I saw it and liked the twist in the end.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G Gordon Liddy
I'm all in for the Halloween movies as well. For some reason they never really seemed to go cheezy like the Friday the 13ths or Nightmare on Elm Streets. That might also contribute to them being my favorite.
Other movies that I enjoy is Punkinhead and Children of the Corn. I never really did understand why my parent's let me at age 8 watch Children of the Corn. I cried like a little girl because I was so scared!
The Louder We All Play, The Harder It Is To Stay Unnoticed.
Anyone who knows me knows the only movie to ever truely scare the piss out of me scarred me for life at the tender age of ::guestimates:: 5/6'ish. My dad thought it wouldn't hurt me to watch The Blob (old school original style)... You can ask my sister what a great idea that was. I couldn't sleep by myself for years (luckily, the sister was in the room next to me and we didn't have a door...and she had no problem <that I know of> of me crawling in with her and clinging...actually, I think she just used me for the heat...but I digress)... I still can't always sleep with the closet doors open or the attic door open. It still wierds me out to have my feet over the edge of the bed. And I've seen the Blob remake...giggled my ass off the whole way through. Just never got over the first one.
I have a huge problem with Aliens too. Fire in the sky and Signs... I can't watch them by myself. I can't sleep well after them. But I love signs at the same point in time. (Ask DMFJ, he'll explain how much I death grip his arm for this).
At the same point in time, put me in front of a chainsaw murderer, a possessed doll, a man in a christmas sweater, etc...a house that comes to life... and not a problem. I smile through the whole thing. I like being scared. The oldschool movies of Freddy, Jason, M. Myers, Chucky, etc make me giggle anymore. Scream 1 was a great movie. I figured it out off the bat, but it was still set up great. House on Haunted Hill (remake) awesome. And...well.. The Tingler (Vincent Price was genious)...something that used to scare my mother when she was my age...though it makes me giggle...i can see why it was scary back in the day...
~*~Esa~*~
I'll be the one left standing behind you, looking the other way as you glance back at what you've lost.
THE EXORCIST !! This movie is just EVIL !! The element that is most scary to me is that this could and does really happen. That satan is a real kidder .
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in a war, I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody, I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood
Imgrimm01 wrote:THE EXORCIST !! This movie is just EVIL !! The element that is most scary to me is that this could and does really happen. That satan is a real kidder .
I know I've posted this on here before...but it seemed fitting that I repost it now... heh.
Exorcist & Ex. III are both incredible, i know pt II sucked but if you haven't seen III, check it out.
other good horror:
MY SWEET SATAN
ROADKILL
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
SALEM'S LOT
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
WRONG TURN
IT'S ALIVE(creeped me out for years...especially the trailer!!)
MOTEL HELL
The Exorcist all the way! Especially that part in the remade version where she crawls backward down the steps on her fingertips. that is creepy as hell! I watched that by myself in this spooky old farmhouse i used to live in out in the middle of nowhere. I slept with all the lights on for weeks. The ring was also twisted and scarey.
Esa...I'm like you about attic doors, I can't even sleep in the same room as one cause I'm afraid I'll see it start too open by itself in the middle of the night. and up until I was 22 I couldn't stand to even have a door on my closet. I still leave the door open now because I wanna make sure I can see what is in there at all times. I guess i figure nothing can hide in there if I can see into it. Used to have these weird ideas about my clothes coming out and floating across the room at me too. and forget about dolls, clowns or ventriloquist dummies. no way will anything like that ever live in my house.
I'm not a big fan of slashem up movies. It's the devil/ghost kind that scare me the most. maybe because of the possibility of it actually being real. I never worry that freddy or jason or that dude with the chainsaw might "get" me. in fact until a few years ago I never even bothered to lock my doors. I'm more worried that a ghost is gonna strangle me with my blankets or the devil is gonna take over my body.
While it wasn't a halloween flick... Session Nine kicked my ass! I didn't sleep right for 3 days after that first viewing! Now, it doesn't bother me but that first time did!
It wasn't a blood n guts flick... just screwed with your head!
Esa...I'm like you about attic doors, I can't even sleep in the same room as one cause I'm afraid I'll see it start too open by itself in the middle of the night. and up until I was 22 I couldn't stand to even have a door on my closet. I still leave the door open now because I wanna make sure I can see what is in there at all times. I guess i figure nothing can hide in there if I can see into it. Used to have these weird ideas about my clothes coming out and floating across the room at me too. and forget about dolls, clowns or ventriloquist dummies. no way will anything like that ever live in my house.
duuuuuuuuuuddddddddddeeeeeeee! you have no idea! Now... my attic had itself a ghost (yes, have proof)... but the thing that wierded me out the most was... A California Rasin. Yes. It was possessed. It was evil. It was won at a carnival by my daddy. It sat on my toy box for an hour. Then it was thrown up to the attic because it watched me sleep. Because it placed itself on the other side of the toy box. Because it "fell off" my flat toy box. Tossed to the attic, never to be seen again (and trust me, we cleaned it out when the new roof was getting put on). ::shivers:: I still wait for that thing to come and get me...
~*~Esa~*~
I'll be the one left standing behind you, looking the other way as you glance back at what you've lost.
I like the Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Evil Dead. Oh yeah, Creepshow was good for laughs.
The Grudge and The Ring are probably so similar because they're both remakes originally from Japan. I saw the trailer for The Grudge... Sam Raimi (Evil Dead) is responsible for that particular bit of creepiness... he says it has to do with not giving the audience too much info, allowing them make the movie more personal to their own fear. It appears to work well.
BTW, I saw Team America yesterday... the puppet sex scene alone was worth the ticket price. Big laughs.----->JMS
Oh, and Esa, :sings quietly:" I heard it through the grape-vine..."
Just joshing... I've wanted a ventriloquist dummy my whole life since age 8, and could afford a nice one at this point ( I know, how Baby-Boomer) but my wife won't live in the same house as one, even a toy one, and especially not a clown one. She's generally pretty rational, but not on this one!---->JMS
not my favorites (I don't watch a lot of horror movies now but my daughter did subject me to the Texas Chainsaw Masacre which scared the bejesus out of me) but I remember from when I was a kid 2 that were on TV:
The Frozen Dead (Vincent Price?)
The Spiral Staircase
Anyone remember them? That head in a case from The Frozen Dead used to scare me a lot...
And I saw Joy Ride recently, that guys voice cracks me up when he says 'I'm lookin for Candy Cane' especially when my kids imitate it...
If music be the food of love, then play on...
William Shakespeare
Michael just scares the shit out of me, although it might be the music too - hmmm..... 
The "Original" Texas Chainsaw Massacre 
